Reports on a conference sponsored by the American Society for Training and Development to analyze and compare existing academic programs for human resource development (HRD) professionals and identify ways to shape and define further the training and development/HRD field. (SK)

The author attempts to clarify the difference between punishment and negative reinforcement and suggests that negative reinforcement should be used only as a last resort as a disciplinary tool. (KC)

The author provides an introduction to microcomputers in the schools by answering the type of questions a teacher without computer background might ask such as "What is a computer?"; "What is a microcomputer?"; "How can I teach children to program?" (SJL)

The author attempts a description of teaching, based on the definition of teaching as an act of communication. (SJL)

The author attempts a definition of the general concept of alienation and explores the relationship among alienation, adolescence, and the secondary school by reviewing studies of demographic, social/psychological, school climate, and learning variables in student alienation. (Author/SJL)

The Canadian article explores some of the implications of assigning handicapped children to two commonly used categories: learning disabilities and hearing impairments. (Author/DLS)

The author discusses financial and administrative obstacles to successful implementation of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. For related information, see EC 132 361. (CL)

Describes study which focused on the economic vocabulary used in national and international news magazines and papers. Compares findings with definitions of economic literacy proposed by economists and suggests that economics courses include economic news literacy. (KC)

In April, 1978, 109 chairpeople of academic radio and television departments were surveyed concerning the instruction they provide in television aesthetics and criticism. From the 63 responses, these findings are discussed: courses offered, perceived importance of these courses, pedagogical goals, and operational definitions of television…

Attempts a functional operational definition of "community" to be used by community health nurses and students in their daily practice. States that community can refer to the context or arena in which change operates, or it can be the source of environmental or social factors viewed as less than desirable. (CT)

Discusses the impact of Proposition 13 on community service programs in California and why the effects of the bill were so devastating. Describes a study conducted to establish a new, nonfinancial definition of community services and a new philosophical basis for and framework for self-evaluation of this community college function. (AYC)

Includes an explanation of "instructional theory", a sequential comparison of "information assimilation" and "experiential learning", and information on the educational value of Foxfire. Available from: Center for Environmental, Camping and Outdoor Education; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Pine Lake Field…

From an examination of the different meanings used for identical career education terms, the author lists fifteen key terms (categorized under time and effort, work content, and workplace structure) considered central to career development and education, identifies distinctive meanings, and proposes standard definitions for these key constructs.…

Demonstrates how French dictionaries from the seventeenth century onwards have used elimination or definition to censure certain words unacceptable to the bourgeois ideology of the times.

Five intuitive explanations of division by zero that arise from the common models used in the elementary school to introduce whole number division are presented. (MK)